A Report On The Translation Of Yoga Nidra For Complete Relaxation And Stress Relief(Excerpts)

Nowadays,fast-paced life style and fierce social competition make people face great pressure,which brings us various physical and psychological diseases.How to effectively alleviate pressure and its negative impact on people has also become an important topic in modern society.The book Yoga Nidra for Complete Relaxation and Stress Relief elaborates what Yoga Nidra is and how it serves as an effective and practical way to relax and relieve stress.Therefore,the translation of this book into Chinese will surely benefit those who are suffering from stress and promote relevant study on physical and mental health in China.This translation report is based on the translation practice of the Introduction and Chapter 1 of the source book.The whole translation reports includes four parts: task description,process of translation,case analysis and conclusion.After a detailed description of the translation task and translation process,the translator mainly discusses translation difficulties and solutions with some specific examples in the translation practice.Under the guidance of the functional equivalence theory,the translator clarifies the adoption of translation skills from the lexical level and syntactical level respectively.Conversion,amplification and free translation are employed to solve the translation problems at the lexical level while syntactic linearity,inverse translation and reconstruction are used to tackle the translation of long sentences at the syntactical level.Finally,the translator draws a conclusion of this translation practice in which he summarizes the main content of this report and what he has learned from this translation practice.It is hoped that this translation report can provide some reference and enlightenment for the translation of the same type of texts in the future.